The Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1884. LOCAL. AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 158, 2 June 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1884. LOCAL. AND GENERAL.

The Auckland members are to leare the Manakau for Wellington, m the Hinemoa to-morrow morning. Archdeacon Thorpe will not leave his parish until December. Probably he will seek a country living. It is not decided whether the parishoners will seek a new minister m the colony or send to England. In the case of Mrs Dixon versus the : Accident Company — a claim for a comparatively small amount — the law costs of the defendant were no less than £223. Friday was quite a field day (says a Wellington paper) for the Corporation officers, for m the morning waterpipes were btisting all over the city. The cause of these bursts were probably the large pressure of water, which was m this case aided by the rainfall. No less than 1553 men out of employment have been the guests of the Government m Sydney since sheds were opened for their temporary accommodation and relief. These have been supplied not only with meals, but with blankets, and m some cases clothes. Tho Young Men's Mutual Improve mmit Class meets thia evening at th Wesluyan Schoolhouso. Reading wil * be given and criticisms invited.

Kesiilents m Wellington are up m arms against the high rates charged b}' Insurance Companies. It is contemplate! to seek relict' by guaranteeing the business for a term to the Victorian Insurance Companies. The deputation appointed by the Benevolent Society to represent to the Government the necessity for a home for the aged an infirm m Wellington waited upon the Premier on Saturday. Wahanui, the Ngatinaniapoto Chief, will remain m Wellington through thi 1 session, as he is anxious to see how it is worked. The new tables of fees chargeable m the Resident Magistrate's Courts of the colony comes into force to-day. The scale is very much higher than that which as prevailed m the past. Great complaints are being made of the scarcity of pheasants and quail m the Napier districts this year. Wekas, which suck eggs and which have become very numerous during the last three yesrs, are blamed for the scarcity. Mr Rrabazoneis (says the Star) the the oldest schoolmaster m Auckland. Twenty-fonr years ago amongst his pupils were two boys named Mitchelson and Cadman' The first-named is now Minister of Public Works, and the other is a member of the Huiise of Representatives for Coromandel. The " old boys" of the school have a legend that the embryo politicians were the leaders m every boyish sport and prank. One day j the master caned the future Minister for some piece of excessive juvenesenco, whereupon young Mitchelson displayed his fitness for a {political career by blackening the pedagogic eye. A person named Spencer (a London paper of recent date says) is engaged at an Islington skating-ring m walking 50 miles every day, his object being to complete 5,000, miles and to prove that it is possible to do this on alcoholic beverages, m opposition to Westoivs theory of temperance. Mr Spencer is 60 years of age, i and it appears that he has completed 1,159 miles. His liquid refreshment consists of ale or brandy, and no unmixed water is taken. A person, who claims to be Arthur Orton writes- to the Melbourne Press through Waiter Fossey, of 51, Brightonstreet, East Richmond, that m the event of £1000 being paid m the bank to his | name, and an agrement being properly drawn up for the money to become his upon the performance of the terms of the agreement, he will emerge from the obscurity which has surrounded him for | many years, and will satisfactorily prove himself to be the " real old original" Arthur Orton, whose name has been so deeply associated with the Tichbourne ease In the course of his speech at Dunedin Mr Larnach is reported to have said to the electors — " Your very clothes, you wifes' and sisters' clothes, your childrei)B' dolls' clothes, your hens and their eggs, and the useful crockery of your bed-chambers, are all taxed. I cry, For shame ! and I look for you to echo Shame ! at such a law m so fair a country, and she so young." The agricultural statistics for the colony for 1884, which have just been published, give the following particulars as to the Wellington provincial district : 7741 acres broken up but not under crop ; 41,654 acres under crop (exclusive of grain) ; 15,534 acres m wheat ; 10,441 acres m oats ; 1041 acres m barley ; estimated gross produce m wheat, 320,939 bushels ; m oats, 248,509 ; m barley, 33,419. There are 921,502 acres m sown grasses*. The total estimated produce of the colony m wheat is 10,270,591 bushels, being a decrease of 443,455 from last year ; m oats (for grain), 319,858, or a decrease of 56, 904 bushels ; and m barley, 737,163, or an increase of 227,293 bushels. The unemployed are commencing agitation m Dunedin, and the Mayor of that city has telegraphed to the Premier asking for work for them. It is stated that twelve American millionaires have united to execute a gi- i ganlic plan. They intend to build in ' Jerusalem a temple that shall exactly correspond to that which was destroyed by the Romans m A.D. 70. Two have already gone to Palestine to initiate the place and means of operation. The motive which actuates this work is not intimated. Another attempt is to be made (says the European Mail) to get the Imperial Parliament to legalise marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Mr Broadhurst has given notice that he will, on April 29, bring on his motion m reference to the subject. Colonel Makius has also given notice that when the hon. member for Stoke has made his motion he will move as an ameudment an address to the Throne to appoint a Royal Corninis--1 sion to inquire into the question of marriages within the prohibited degree. The North Otago Times, writing of the wheat, produced m North Otago I this season, expaesses the opinion that before next harvest, wheat will have I to bo imported largely from other districts, if the mills are to be kept going. The official return of the yield at 170,000 I sacks is said to be a too liberal one. i Forty thousand sacks have been already sent away, and it is estimated the mills can deal with 130.000 sacks. Consequently, if the yield fell short of the I official return, as is believed to be the 1 case, North Otago has no wheat to cxl port. Of course the export trade m flour will be maintained if the mills are kept busy, and this trade has considerable proportions. A case has been decided m South Australia, m which the dispute turned on I the meaning of the word " fallow." A landlord brought an action against his tenant for £400 damages for breach of a covenant requiring him to " fallow " a certain portion of the land for three years before the expiry of the lease. The tenantsimply let the land liounploughed, and fed off whatever herbage appeared. The landlord claimed that the land ought to have been ploughod and kept free from weeds. The Court gave a verdict for the tenant, on the ground that " fallow," according to the common acceptation of the word, meant simply | resting the land without ploughing ; a I fallow with ploughing and cleaning beiug known as" bastard fallow."